Hello from Chicago. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. I'm doing a couple

days at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.

Meating with some students having some seminars.

It's a good way to spend the final week

before election day because there's really not a lot more reporting to do just simply a lot more preparing if you will

For time stamp purposes I'm recording this on Monday October 28th

Which puts us just over a week away from election day. And as I said last week, when it comes to podcast guests, we are in the heavyweight portion of the booking process.

And my guest for today's episode is John Ralston.

He's the CEO and editor of the Nevada Independent.

And of course he's got a lot to say about the silver state and he's probably the single best person to talk to to understand

what's happening in Nevada and which way it could lean.

And before we get to that conversation with him and why I want to spend a lot of time

on Nevada, which I'm going to tell you in a minute, remember do stick around for another

listener question and please remember to submit your questions to the

Chuck Toddcast at gmail.com don't forget the the.

So one week for election day my column this week I said it's you know this is the point of the of the process where we're sitting in the eye of the storm. We know

there's an eerie call. We know chaos is about to come. We're not sure where it's going to come from, how it plays out. And all we can do is sit there,

uncomfortably wait, and maybe do a little more preparation, right? A little more historical context,

a few more demographic groups to dive into.

I know I've been looking, we've been expanding

our data dives as we prepare for election night to include where are the largest

Puerto Rican populations in Pennsylvania which county should we be

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